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LINCOLN GARDENS, N.J.—
The First Baptist
Church Lincoln Gardens was established
in 1933, and has grown steadily,
with a membership today of some 6,000.

To keep up with this growth, I was
asked by our church pastor to look into
upgrading the church’s existing audio
system to a state-of-the-art system for our
3,500-seat church.

We wanted a system that could handle
the church service audio and provide a lot
of horsepower. This project was initiated
two years ago and it all began with a call
that I made to Yamaha Commercial Audio
Systems.

Yamaha and their local dealer made several
visits to our facility, with one of these
being a design meeting with Joe Rimstidt, a
systems engineer from Nexo (a subsidiary
of Yamaha Corporation Japan). He developed
the final audio design for our sound
system.

The project, which was approved in
mid 2011, included a number of Nexo and
Yamaha loudspeakers and power amplifiers,
all driven by two Yamaha digital audio
consoles. A Yamaha LS9-32 console with
Aviom card was installed in the monitor
position in the church and a Yamaha
M7CL-48 provides us with front-of-house
mixes. All system routing and dynamics
are handled by the Yamaha M7CL-48 and
stored.

MIXES ANYWHERE IN THE HOUSE
A big advantage with this setup is that
now the church band has complete control
over its mixes. Also, both Yamaha consoles
are connected to my iPad, so I can
do mixes from any seat in the house.

The church produces a weekly live
stream television broadcast for those unable
to attend the sermons, and the Yamaha
M7CL was my first choice for mixing in
the video broadcast suite created for this
purpose.

As part of our AV installation, we also
needed an audio console that would allow
us to mix on the fly and would work
well with Pro Tools in postproduction
work. The Yamaha M7CL was a really good
fit for us, and since it was installed our live
stream broadcast audio mixes have been
very consistent.

The church allows non-audio professional
church members to work alongside
a professional audio engineer to
help with the mixing and monitoring
of the audio. Consequently, it
was very important to have equipment
that is user friendly and comes
without a steep learning curve. Yamaha
has really done a great job in
making sure that people can effectively
use their consoles.

TheYamaha LS9 also has some
other features that make it easy for a
non-professional to operate, including
gates, compressors, equalizers
on every channel, along with scene
recalls and storage. These features
simplify operations greatly. The routing
is amazing and very easy to understand.

Joseph Spencer III is technical
director and front-of-House engineer
for First Baptist Church Lincoln
Gardens. He may be contacted
at jspenceriii@mac.com.